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In RealTime posts, PIIE senior staff and colleagues discuss the fast-moving economic news, financial developments, and public policy choices confronting the United States and the world.
The author participated in the PIIE conference on Jan. 7 on “Ethics and Globalization: the Tradeoffs Underlying Our Policy Choices.” In Session III: “Expecting Ethical Duties from Private Actors,” Ms. Elliott addressed the subject of this posting as a panelist. On Jan. 8, the US Trade Representative issued a call for comments on a petition [...]
Adam Thomson, in the Financial Times on July 10, writes of the coup in Honduras as an echo of 1980s violence in Central America. But, in fact, the past is not as distant as much of the coverage of the coup suggests and the seemingly forgotten autogolpe, or “self coup” in Guatemala in 1993 may [...]
Congressman Xavier Becerra (D-CA) reportedly declined President-elect Obama’s offer to be the new US Trade Representative because he “came to the conclusion that [trade] wouldn’t be priority number one, and it might not be number two or three.” Given the enormous problems facing the American economy, and given American attitudes toward trade ranging from ambivalence [...]